• Weslee@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Just wait for quantum computers to take off, our current encryption can be broken with them

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        1 year ago

        Yeah but just think of all the work that needs redoing to the encryption systems around the world.

        Also someone could intercept and save data that has been encrypted with our standard method now and wait for quantum computing to crack it

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      1 year ago

      absolutely. a lot of currently in use public key schemes may be broken with those. more recently there have been a few newer algorithm such as kyber that do have a chance to hold. think NIST is also holding a bit of a competition, but dont quote me on that. i really dont know alot about post-quantum crypto